Robert Provine: University of MarylandAfter an introduction to the nature and use of laughter in daily life, discussion turns to the evolution of laughter and its implications for the emergence […]
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Meg Crofoot: UC DavisAnimals living in stable social groups may often disagree about where to go, but must reconcile their differences to maintain cohesion and thus the benefits of group […]
Rick Dale: UC MercedHuman language is a flexible behavioral repertoire that may be finely tuned to our cognitive processes and social circumstances. I present evidence from three timescales that language […]
Emma Cohen: University of OxfordIn this talk, I'll present some ideas and preliminary data on the links between exercise and social bonding. Exercise, broadly construed, is a cultural universal - […]
Lera Boroditsky: UCSDHow do the languages we speak shape the ways we think? Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages change the way you think? Do […]
Laurie Santos: Yale UniversityI will explore the evolutionary roots of some of our species' irrational decisions. I will start by reviewing some classic biases in the field of judgment and […]
Jacob Foster: UCLAScience is an incredibly successful instance of social learning. Its practices produce and subtly organize the attention, effort, and creativity of millions of scientists, leading to rapid and […]
A.J. Figueredo and Michael Anthony Woodley: University of Arizona, Free University of BrusselsA sequential canonical cascade model, detailing the hypothesized biogeography of human life history (LH) and intelligence (IQ), derives […]
Kristin Snopkowski: Boise State UniversityOver the past two hundred years, most societies around the world have experienced fertility transitions, defined as a dramatic decline in reproductive rates through time. The […]
